I just downloaded 2+Gb and spent like an hour to install Omron cx-one logic controller with bunch of prerequisites to some old laptop. After I spent days to hunt that installation package that they took away from web since it was old version and had security vulnerabilities..Not to mention first install failed in the very end since windows had some unfinished updates requesting system restart. All I needed to do was to quickly tweak some timers.

You know, we've given SW over $40,000 over the years, You think they would be able to at least tell me which file reference was bad?

Everything in black was already opening fine, so no issues there, everything in green I took the time to browse and double click, so I know they are there also... Well, that was a huge waste of fricken time...

God I hate linking file based references...I wish SW was as easy as Onshape sometimes... Right click, copy document, done

CNC computer died just now... had to make a mad dash and get them up and running.lucky for me I was half way through setting them up a hand-me-down. All I needed to do was install MasterCam.

Looked through the server closet and found the latest version on the shelf. Got all the way through the install and update. Went to start it up and got this

:FacePalm:

I tried getting them to try mecsoft visual cam for Onshape, but they kept blowing off the salesman. Their loss. Licences fall out of my responsibility. Good luck y'all

It's been over 3 weeks since I've tried putting eDrawings viewer on their machine. But SW wants an email to spam, so they won't let you open eDrawings until you register an email, and using an email more than once usually fails. Well F-U SW, I've used every email in the company now for your free app, and they still need to be able to view a model once in a while...

But they have no issue spamming the hell out of the email I attempted to register...

Solidworks is now a phishing company I guess.. What a shady company they have become.

CNC computer died just now... had to make a mad dash and get them up and running.lucky for me I was half way through setting them up a hand-me-down. All I needed to do was install MasterCam.

Looked through the server closet and found the latest version on the shelf. Got all the way through the install and update. Went to start it up and got this

:FacePalm:

I tried getting them to try mecsoft visual cam for Onshape, but they kept blowing off the salesman. Their loss. Licences fall out of my responsibility. Good luck y'all

Hey you can get messages that look just like that in Onshape:-

They're
very easy to get rid of though, all you have to do is pay an additional
$1000 a year for something that's included free of charge within the
$250 a year subscription in that other Orange-ish CAD-ish software. Grrr.

They're
very easy to get rid of though, all you have to do is pay an additional
$1000 a year for something that's included free of charge within the
$250 a year subscription in that other Orange-ish CAD-ish software. Grrr.

Owen S.

But the difference is: Our subscription IS paid plus an additional annual maintenance fee... but we couldn't access it until we called the local Rep, had them give us a new key for the dongle. Install newer software for the dongle on the server (after a tech support walk through we found out we had to also update the dongle software on the server to accept the new hasp licence, and uninstall all traces of the old software because the new hasp software wasn't taking control of the hasp service)

Wow that sounds painful, I commend your fortitude. I think I would have microwaved that dongle and asked for another one.!! I remember having to find a PC with a parallel port so we could use a damn dongle, I thought they were dead in 2019. Did it require talking to in Latin?

It wasn't the dongle, it was the hasp software. being a security app. I assume it had something to do with some security hole being shut in the new version, making newer versions of the licence not compatible.

And thankfully the guy on the phone was a native English speaker no Latin required this time

I can't use SolidWorks 2018 on my laptop, because my Desktop thinks I have 2019 installed on it, and wanted me to Transfer the license from the Newer Version (but I uninstalled 2019 on that machine, and rebooted etc)...but I can't transfer the license because I can't open 2019 to run the Transfer tool from there!

Now I'm waiting for some time to Remote Desktop back to my Workstation to try to sort it out and Deactivate the license on that machine....meanwhile, I'll keep motoring in OS while on the road.

I was trying to work on two assemblies (separate instances of SW) While one was saving (takes a minute or so) I was gonna switch over and tweak views on a different job. (used to do this before)

Now with the icon showing an hour glass it blocks access to all other open windows, which means I have to wait for these long commands to finish before I can work on any other SW process...

How I miss "Open in new browser tab" right about now...

EDIT: Never mind, I was trying alt+tab and was getting no response, but I tried again and this time it let me alt+tab. Could have been wrong keystroke or some kind of glitch Feel sorry for anyone who doesn't know keyboard shortcuts..